Horse Slaughter Increased 38% Over Past Year

Straight from the Horse's Heart

Information supplied by the Equine Welfare Alliance

Anti-Horse Faction’s Propaganda Exposed

A 38% increase over the same period last year.

Yearly:

http://equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/00-Slaughter_Statistics.pdf

By week and Month:
http://equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/00-Slaughter_Statistics-week-month_2012.pdf

1) Slaughter supporters frequently use the logic of a cumulative total of horses that would be roaming the streets over a number of years if slaughter ends.

Using their faulty logic, we did the same thing but started with 1990-the highest slaughter count recorded-as the base year and added the number of horses that weren’t slaughtered in subsequent years. With their logic, there should be 6,198,697 horses roaming our streets! Each year reflects the base year minus the number of horses slaughtered in that year. That begs the question, where did all those horses go?

2) The next column is a count of exported horses during the years the slaughter plants were open.
Although not reflected in this spreadsheet, here is proof once and for all, the slaughter option that they keep saying is gone, is nothing but a flat out lie. We took the 5 years prior to the plants closing compared to the 5 years after the plants closed.
2002-2006   534,156
2007-2011   609,205
Difference      75,046 or a 14% increase
If we take 6 years – 2001-2006 and include this year’s numbers annualized (April numbers) we get an even higher percentage.
2001-2006                            631,638
2007-2012 (April annualized)    745,951
Difference                             114,313 or an 18% increase